“Very few U.S. citizens want to see their government even slightly imitate that of China, which keeps dossiers on all citizens’ performance and attitudes. These records influence work, political, and school opportunities. Because “everything they do will be recorded for the rest of their life …” read more

And in another article: “Over the past 18 months, a massive $100 million public-school database spearheaded by the $36.4 billion-strong Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been in the making that freely shares student information with private companies…” “…..Yet the company which will manage this information says in its company documentation, “cannot guarantee the security of the information stored … or that the information will not be intercepted when it is being transmitted…..” read more…

Find out more about the federal data collection in this article by Emmett McGroarty and Jane robbins of the American Principles Project. The plan is to collect children’s personal information from their first early learning experience to adulthood. This article is from a few months ago, but it is still relevant now because, with the inauguration behind us, the federal government will feel free to move boldly ahead.

Imagine a future world in which every aspect of each citizen is compiled in a data base. Oh, wait, it’s already happening….starting with the early learning data base that is being implemented. Watch this video . Although it mentions Oklahoma, it applies to us in Washington as well.

Schools should be places of learning –of passing down knowledge and culture from one generation to the next. They shouldn’t be places of control, monitoring, and violations of privacy. One student’s protest against this violation has made it to the courts.

A Kindergarten Career Test! This is wrong on so many levels–and also very revealing. Read more.

Bar-coding and data-archiving information on your children in a free country? In the USA? Don’t say it couldn’t happen. It already is happening. Read J.R. Wilson’s article from Education News .

A change in privacy laws included in the Stimulus bill of 2009 will allow your child’s private information to be shared by agencies and individuals. Watch the video.

“In the ‘you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff’ category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers’ lessons.”

Make way for the techno-educrats. Diane Ravitch’s blog reveals their plans for “galvanic skin response” monitoring.

How far will government schools go in collecting data on our students? In this case, St. Louis County parents were able to have this activity-monitoring project to shelved.